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Predictors and Consequences of Grade Retention

Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2007
Data from a population-based repository in Manitoba showed that students who are male, young for grade, and in Grades 1, 2, 7, and 8 were the most likely to be retained. After controlling for key student factors including socioeconomic status, school changes, and key school characteristics including stability of the student body, retention was a strong
Marni Brownell   +2 more
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Grade retention: A current issue

Early Child Development and Care, 1993
Grade retention has attracted escalating interest in recent years as schools have become increasingly concerned with academic achievement, social and emotional well‐being, and yearly educational costs of students. While controversy and vacilation have characterized promotion policy throughout this century, little definitive research has existed to ...
Cynthia Dennis Biegler   +1 more
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The Cost of Grade Retention [PDF]

open access: possibleReview of Economics and Statistics, 2012
Abstract This paper uses administrative longitudinal microdata on junior high school students in Uruguay to measure the effect of grade failure on students' subsequent school outcomes. Exploiting the discontinuity induced by a rule establishing automatic grade failure for pupils with more than three failed subjects, I show that grade failure leads to ...
openaire   +4 more sources

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